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Originally Posted by blankall

The problem with doing that is you see some pretty dramatic swings in the cost of living in BC. There's been years where rent has increased 20% in a year. A lot of organizations simply won't have the ability to absorb a corresponding wage increase like that.

Our economy, in Canada generally, is fundamentally flawed right now where cost of living is growing far in excess of other metrics. No wage earners inside or outside of unions/governments are seeing their wages increase with the cost of living. It definitely seems like a reasonable demand to have wages increase with the cost of living, but how do you have one sector of the economy just keep up with that?

If it's just government employees getting more money, they are going to have unfair advantages over other wage earners. If it's all wage earners seeing the increase, you'll just end up with inflation. You can't spend your way out of a housing shortage. if you want rent to be cheaper, we need to have more places to rent.

Yes. Essentially this.

Cost of Living is essentially a roller-coaster right now. Thats not a demand that can be met.

Not to mention that this is a Province-wide Union. The cost of living in Vancouver is not going to be accurately reflected for an employee in Kamloops, Kelowna or Prince George.